Instructor
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Dr. Evangeline Deer received her PhD. at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi and is an Instructor in the Department of Pharmacology at UMMC.
Dr. Deer serves in multiple leadership capacities. She is a current member of the Postdoctoral Advisory Committee and assists in organizing seminars, Research Day, and career development workshops for postdoctoral fellows at UMMC. At the institutional level, she assists the Pharmacology clinical research core in consenting patients and collecting samples, is co-director of the Pharmacology Journal Club, lecturer in one (MFM research fellow) Medical course, and serves as a research mentor for trainees at various levels. She also serves as a reviewer for a number of journals including BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Cells, Cell Cycle, and the Journal of Hypertension. She has published over 12 peer reviewed manuscripts and editorials in leading journals for the field of hypertension research and cardiovascular physiology. In addition, she has provided service as a scientific judge in several local science fairs.
Dr. Deer has received several awards throughout her career including the Society for Reproductive Investigation’s President’s New Investigator Plenary Award, the American Physiological Society’s Cardiovascular Section Steven M. Horvath Professional Opportunity Award, the American Heart Association’s Council on Hypertension’s AFHRE Travel Grants for Support of Underrepresented Minorities Award, the American Physiological Society’s Caroline tum Suden/Frances Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award, and was recently a finalist in the the American Physiological Society’s Renal Section Postdoctoral Excellence in Renal Research Award. Dr. Deer’s laboratory focuses on identifying immunological interactions in the pathophysiology of gestational diabetes and investigating the association between preeclampsia and an increased risk of developing gestational diabetes tto establish new therapeutic targets for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and reduce the gap present in racial disparities in reproductive health.